Alternatives to Cartography / / ed. by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck.

In the 1980s generative grammar recognized that functional material is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this line of theorizing, which goes by th...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 100
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Alternatives to cartography: an introduction
  • A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast
  • Focus, topic, and word order: A compositional view
  • A focus-binding conspiracy. Left-to-right merge, scrambling and binary structure in European Portuguese
  • Phases and variation: Exploring the second factor of the faculty of language
  • Varieties of INFL: TENSE, LOCATION, and PERSON
  • CAT meets GO: Auxiliary inversion in German verb clusters
  • A solution to the conceptual problem of cartography
  • Adjective placement and linearization
  • Some implications of improper movement for cartography
  • There is no alternative to cartography
  • Backmatter